How Green is my airliner?

Ordinary jet fuel is a hydrocarbon, a compound of carbon and hydrogen.  When jet fuel is burned, in the engines, the hydrogen mates up with oxygen from the air yielding H2O or water.  The carbon mates up with oxygen yielding CO2 or carbon dioxide.  

Aviation Week features a seven page spread on "Sustainable Aviation Fuel"  SAF for short.  This miracle compound burns without producing CO2.  The Aviation week spread claimed that all the industry needs to do is convert over to SAF and that will get the greenies off the industry's back.  

   In this entire spread Aviation Week does not tell us what a "Sustainable Aviation Fuel is made from nor does it say how the stuff is made.  Nor what it costs.  They have made enough SAF for a handful of flights in real aircraft and existing engines work just fine on the stuff.  

   This is the first I every heard of SAF.  I have my doubts as to how much could be produced, especially produced at the cost of ordinary jet fuel, which is essentially kerosene.

Instapundit thinks Susan Rice and Dr. Jill are running the country

 Most of us don't think Biden is running the county.  We think Biden just signs or reads aloud anything his handlers put in front of him.  A figurehead.  The interesting question is who is pulling Biden's strings.

Instapundit thinks it is Susan Rice and Dr. Jill.  He does not give any evidence to support this belief. 

Wall Street is OK with the $1.9 Trillion "Covid-19 Relief Bill"

 The Dow Jones Average reached a new high after Biden signed the bill yesterday.  Of the $1.9 Trillion bill only 10% of the money does anything for Covid-19 work.  The rest of it goes to favorite Democrat programs, like the National Endowment for the Arts.  

   The US GNP is only a bit more than $17 Trillion, so this Covid-19 Relief Bill equals better than 10% of the entire GNP.  The money will simply be printed, debasing the currency, and creating inflationary pressures.  Everything will be a little more expensive due to Covid-19 Relief.  

Not to worry says Wall Street. 

Disney is dropping a lotta goldie oldies

 Peter Pan, my favorite Disney cartoon.  Fortunately I have it on a factory VHS tape.  Dumbo, the Aristocats, and Swiss Family Robinson are on the Disney hit list too.  So I rented them all from Netflix so I can enjoy them before Disney makes them all disappear. 

Must be Spring

 It is up to 52F, warmest it has been all year.  I bought a box of fresh strawberries for only $2.50.  They were $8 only a few weeks ago. 

Looks like the Royal Family made a mistake

 This Meghan Markle is truly making the British royal family look really bad.  You would think that the Queen and Prince Charles would have checked out Meghan Markle before the marriage and found her unsatisfactory and made it clear to Harry that marrying her would be a disaster for him and for the rest of the family and the realm.  Obviously that did not happen.  Too bad.

I wonder which senator missed the vote

 The US Senate voted thru the Democrat's $1.9 Trillion Covid19 "relief" bill last night.  The vote was 50-49.  I wonder which senator missed that vote.  Probably a Democrat.  Of the $1.9 Trillion only $0.38 Trillion goes to Covid problems, the other $1.52 Trillion went to favorite Democrat spending projects like National Endowment for the Arts.